In July 2012, Paul Omerod spoke at the RSA on network effects. He described this as positive linking – but not because the effects of networks are all positive. His contention is that – especially in economics – we tend to be subject to (but over look) network effects. Better attention to this trend could lead to a revolution in our…
Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, which offers instruction and inspiration on the important questions of everyday life, and advises organisations including Oxfam and the United Nations on using empathy and conversation to create social change. He has developed the concept of outrospection – the…
Iain McGilchrist in his The Master and His Emissary links together neuroscience and brain functioning with the qualities of ‘attention’. I am not going to try and do justice to his arguments, here, but it seems to me clear that he is describing – from a very different point of view – aspects of what we are exploring. He describes the…
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (quoted in ‘Evocative Objects: things we think with’ by Sherry Turkle): ‘Perceiving is not a matter of passively allowing an organ – say of sight or hearing – to receive a ready-made impression from without, like a palette receiving a spot of paint. Recognising and remembering are not matters of stirring up old images of…
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